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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Huey Long by T Harry Williams Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this work describes the life of one of the most extraordinary figures in American political history.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein Publisher Comments In this timely and long-awaited cultural history of the 1930s, Morris Dickstein, whom Norman Mailer called one of our best and most distinguished critics of American literature, explores the anxiety and hope, the despair and surprising optimism of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $20.07 New - Hardcover
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1959: The Year Everything Changed by Fred Kaplan Publisher Comments Advance Praise for Fred Kaplan's 1959: The Year Everything Changed An engrossing story about not just where the '60s came from but the birth of the future. Kaplan does a masterful job of weaving together the strands - in politics, society, culture, and... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes Publisher Comments It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes offers a striking... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley Publisher Comments The study of two demagogues, whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Allen Publisher Comments Only Yesterday deals with that delightful decade from the Armistice in November 1918 to the panic and depression of 1929-30. Here is the story of Woodrow Wilson's defeat, the Harding scandals, the Coolidge prosperity, the revolution in manners and morals,... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M Barry Staff Pick "An account of the Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America. When the river flooded, it was possible to travel in a boat, east to west in the South, two hundred miles. The book is an account of how engineers had tried to control the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hard Times: An Oral History of Great Depression by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments In this unique re-creation of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. The book is a mosaic of memories from those who were richest to those who were... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies by M Stanton Evans Publisher Comments Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies by M. Stanton Evans Publisher Comments Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Freedom From Fear : the American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (99 Edition) by David M. Kennedy Publisher Comments Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom From Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Testing the New Deal: The General Strike of 1934 in the American South (Working Class in American History) by Janet Irons Publisher Comments In September 1934 two-thirds of the southern textile labor force walked off their jobs, inspired by Roosevelt's New Deal to protest employer harassment and massive industry restructuring. After three weeks, the union that led the strike called it off in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression: The Report on Economic Conditions of the South with Related Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture) by David L Carlton Publisher Comments The National Emergency Countil's 1938 Report on Economic Conditions of the South caused Franklin Roosevelt to view the south as "the Nation's #1 economic problem" and quickly became a standard part of modern Southern history. This important and out-of... (read more) List Price $16.35 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey Publisher Comments Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Based on eight years of research, extensive archival materials, new documents, and exclusive access to Perkins’s family members... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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American-made: the Enduring Legacy of the Wpa: When FDR Put the Nation To Work (08 Edition) by Nick Taylor Publisher Comments Seventy-five years after Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, here for the first time is the remarkable story of one of its enduring cornerstones, the Works Progress Administration (WPA): its passionate believers, its furious critics, and its amazing... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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American Dreamer (01 Edition) by Culver Publisher Comments The great politician, agriculturalist, economist, author, and businessman-loved and reviled, and finally now revealed. The first full biography of Henry A. Wallace, a visionary intellectual and one of this century's most important and controversial... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fifties by David Halberstam Publisher Comments The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Defying Dixie: the Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (08 Edition) by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore Publisher Comments The civil rights movement that looms over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This rich history... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--And the Shoot-Out That Stopped It by Stephen Hunter Publisher Comments American Gunfight is the fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event -- the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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